April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
June 12 » Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
Day of death August 7, 1962
The temperature on August 7, 1962 was between 11.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 13.3 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
July 30 » The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
November 4 » The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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